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Celeste Hicks

@chadceleste.bsky.social
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Possibly the UK's only inhabitant of the crossover space between the Sahel, aviation decarbonisation & clean air. Recovering author of 3 books. Policy Manager at the Aviation Environment Federation

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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Climate Centre @climatecentreuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We've been talking about a third runway for decades, but the fundamental problem is Heathrow is surrounded on all sides by critical infrastructure that can't easily be moved, @chadceleste.bsky.social tells @stevehreports.bsky.social.
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This feels a bit like #Heathrow already know the plan is so outrageous it will likely suffocate like HS2. But let's see how realistic a £50bn scheme is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Heathrow Airport's third runway expansion plans to cost £49bn
Heathrow says expansion is
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Is #SAF the best environmental use of waste feedstocks? Unfortunately, no. Read more in our new report @theaef.bsky.social @green-alliance.org.uk www.aef.org.uk/2025/07/18/i...
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Is SAF the most efficient path to economy-wide decarbonisation? - Aviation Environment Federation
The UK’s SAF mandate came into operation in early 2025. It supports the use of primarily waste-based feedstocks to create jet fuel, creating a “closed loop” of carbon emissions that, …
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Time and again #nightflights come up as one of the worst impacts of living near an airport. Congratulations to @galba.uk who stopped Leeds Bradford Airport from re-writing the rules: www.galba.uk/our-campaign... @theaef.bsky.social @wearepossible.bsky.social
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We've stopped the airport from flying unlimited night flights! - Galba
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Want to learn more about the current debate happening around airport expansion, aviation alternative fuels and decarbonisation? Here's @chadceleste.bsky.social explaining the uncertainty around alternative fuels and what we should do about it 💪 4/4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwyV...
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Are we decarbonising UK aviation quick enough?
YouTube video by Aviation Environment Federation (AEF)
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@chadceleste.bsky.social, AEF’s Policy Manager, told MPs on the Committee that UK aviation is not decarbonising fast enough. Consequently, airport expansion is irresponsible and the Government should be wary of an over-reliance on so-called Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs). 2/4
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Is UK aviation decarbonising fast enough? Last month the @commonseac.parliament.uk held a session investigating whether airport expansion is compatible with the UK's climate and nature targets. AEF was invited to give evidence. 1/4 www.aef.org.uk/2025/06/05/u...
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‘Alternative aviation fuels are useful but not enough,’ says AEF to the Environmental Audit Committee - Aviation Environment Federation
On Wednesday 14th of May 2025, the Environmental Audit Committee held an evidence session as part of its inquiry into whether airport expansion is compatible with the UK’s climate and …
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
As our Policy Manager, @chadceleste.bsky.social, outlined in front of the @commonseac.parliament.uk last week, aviation is not decarbonising fast enough and other policy measures, such as demand measures and frequent flyer levies, need to be considered. 4/4
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Munira Wilson MP @munirawilson.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
First @thecccuk.bsky.social said a Heathrow third runway would risk torpedoing the UK’s climate goals & now the DfT's own research shows the massive climate impacts. It’s also clear we can’t rely on the silver bullet of sustainable aviation fuel to save the day.
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Here’s the climate toll of Britain’s new Heathrow runway
Government documents obtained by POLITICO show environmental forecasts for the major airport expansion.
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
My kids are obsessed with Race Across the world www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-... it's so nice to see mainstream TV extolling the virtues of slow travel @flightfreeuk.bsky.social #flightfree
independent.co.uk
Race Across the World locations: Where is the new series filmed?
From the starting point at the Great Wall of China, the teams are headed to the southernmost tip of India
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
If you haven't already, pls consider signing this petition against #airport expansion #ExpansionRebellion @flightfreeuk.bsky.social @noairportexp.bsky.social @wearepossible.bsky.social petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK
More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A thoughtful read on the new planning bill #PIB & its disregard for nature www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
bizarre decision but it looks like it's already drawing more attention to this perfectly innocuous and valuable bit of public service podcasting 🤷‍♀️ as I'm not a BBC employee I can tell it like it is: heat pumps are great! UK needs policies & industry investment to extend the benefits to everyone
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Expanding Luton Airport at this time “is a huge environmental gamble, with uncertain economic prospects, and exposing many local residents to higher levels of noise and air pollution,” explains Tim Johnson, AEF’s director 😷☁️🛬 www.edie.net/london-luton...
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London Luton Airport expansion dubbed ‘a huge environmental gamble’ - edie
UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has given the green light for London Luton Airport to expand, increasing its maximum passenger capacity from 18 million to 32 million.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke...
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Keep the Dublin Airport Passenger Cap - Help protect children from harm
I've just signed this petition to keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport to protect our climate and our children's futures. Will you sign too?
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Will airport expansion lead to growth? @thecccuk.bsky.social says #Aviation will be the biggest emitting sector by 2040, & that's without non-CO2 impacts such as #contrails which double the impact. @theaef.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK
More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Wooo! 🥳 Keep going y'all petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Screenshot of petition site with 1,000 signatures
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Great progress on day three of our petition: thanks to the nearly 500 people who have signed. Can we reach the next 500? Please sign and share, and help us tell the government we don't want airport expansion: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK
More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are pleased to present AEF's Annual Report for 2024, where we reflect on the key highlights from our work over the past year. Take a look to get insights into Government policy, biodiversity, airport expansion and more! www.aef.org.uk/2025/03/24/a...
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AEF's 2024 Annual Report - Aviation Environment Federation
We are pleased to present AEF's Annual Report for 2024, where we reflect on the key highlights from our work over the past year.
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What’s the state of European aviation in 2025? @transenv.bsky.social takes a look 👀 Europe is set to save 20 million tonnes of CO2 this year thanks to the EV transition, but increased air travel is undermining this success. 1/2 www.transportenvironment.org/state-of-eur...
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Aviation
Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hundreds of lives wiped out in Gaza overnight—families, children, gone in an instant. This is horrific. The UK cannot stay complicit. We must use every diplomatic tool to fight for justice and end all arms sales to Israel now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
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At least 330 killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says, Hamas-run ministry says - live updates
The strikes across Gaza Strip end two months of relative calm since a ceasefire began on 19 January.
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Still scratching your head over the @theCCCuk's seventh carbon budget and its implications for UK aviation? Look no further than our new blog written by @chadceleste.bsky.social 🌟 1/2 www.aef.org.uk/2025/03/14/a...
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AEF analysis: the Seventh Carbon Budget's implications for aviation - Aviation Environment Federation
All eyes were on the government’s independent climate change advisors, the Climate Change Committee, at the launch in late February of its advice on the 7th carbon budget running from …
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The murmurations are such a Brighton institution, it’s a disaster to be losing the starlings for something so needless! Please email your MP and ask them to support my Bill to ban pesticide use in public spaces: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
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Pesticides in public spaces - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House notes that many local authorities and other public authorities use pesticides to manage unwanted vegetation in public places such as parks and green spaces, streets, school grounds, ch...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Yet another study shows the primary reason for high household energy bills is high wholesale gas prices. This really should be obvious by now, but it apparently needs saying again. www.businessgreen.com/news/4410245...
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Study: High gas prices have added £750 to average annual energy bill since 2021
New analysis in wake of latest energy price hike suggests that by this autumn high prices would have cost households £3,000 since the start of the 'gas crisis'
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you've not seen this: first @sustrans.bsky.social report into children's cycling finds worrying gender gap among kids, plus overwhelming support among them for pro-active travel policies. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Almost twice as many boys as girls cycle in UK, Sustrans report finds
Charity sounds alarm over gender gap – but finds children enthusiastic about measures to make cycling easier
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Don't believe the hype, the Planning Inspectorate recommended against #Gatwick expansion, and climate was a big reason
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So #Gatwick decision is delayed for further info on transport links and noise. It would have been horrible timing to approve it just one day after @thecccuk.bsky.social said #aviation demand needs to fall @theaef.bsky.social
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The rumours are building on #Gatwick expansion, but nothing has changed in #aviation decarbonisation @heidialexander.bsky.social. Yet more evidence from @mpwatch.bsky.social that we can't allowing emissions to rise based on very risky evidence that #SAF will deliver www.mpwatch.org/blog/sustain...
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MP Watch | SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUELS Article
Along with environmental and democratic allies, we aim to address the democratic deficit, by building and realising the potential of grassroots community groups to expose and oppose MPs of bad faith ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/02/2025
Thank you SO MUCH to the amazing @joy.msnbc.com for shouting out my Substack today. You will be DEARLY missed. I’ll be following you wherever you go!
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Remember that "a lot has changed in the #aviation industry"? from Rachel Reeves (ie. #SAF is the answer to allowing #Heathrow to expand)? Well, guess what, the industry is asking for "policy makers to support" the cost of #SAF www.greenairnews.com?p=6665
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Action on Net Zero must accelerate, says industry, as costs of decarbonising European aviation set to soar
An updated report by European aviation and aerospace industry associations estimates decarbonising the aviation sector in line with a Net Zero by 2050 target will require total expenditures of €2.4 tr...
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
"Ask your MP to stop airport expansion The Chancellor is set to give the go-ahead to new runways which will set our climate on course for a crash landing" Email your MP to stop these plans from taking off: action.wearepossible.org/page/164836/... via @wearepossible.bsky.social
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Temperatures at North Pole soar to 20C above average and above the melting point of ice #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point
Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A great read on the challenges of #SAF production & why we shouldn't be counting our chickens yet on #HeathrowExpansion www.the-independent.com/travel/susta... @theaef.bsky.social @green-alliance.org.uk @staygroundednet.bsky.social
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Sorry, Rachel Reeves: This is the inconvenient truth about ‘sustainable' aviation
As Labour finally gives Heathrow’s airport expansion the green light, flight-free former travel editor Helen Coffey talks to the experts to bust the myths that technology and sustainable aviation fuel...
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I remain slightly baffled by the political wisdom of pinning your growth strategy on the single most complex and controversial option from which you're unlikely to get growth or popularity in this or the next Parliament. www.ft.com/content/a167...
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‘The only winners are lawyers’: Heathrow braces for long journey to third runway
Totemic infrastructure project set for significant hurdles even after political green light
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"Heathrow’s third runway would be one of the most destructive infrastructure projects this country has ever considered [and] will leave our climate targets out of reach," says Tim Johnson, AEF's Director, in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise?
As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess possible environmental impacts
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Los Angeles is burning, the UK is experiencing more and stronger storms than ever before, and our Chancellor wants to increase flying within and to and from the UK. We've written to tell her why we think that from an #AirPollution and #Climate perspective, this is unbelievable. #Heathrow
A letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer explaining our view that to expand Heathrow and other UK airports will be detrimental to the environment.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
What would Heathrow third runway mean for carbon emissions, air pollution, and noise? More, more, more ... Analysis by me #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise?
As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess possible environmental impacts
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Want to know why #HeathrowExpansion is a really bad idea? Look no further #ExpansionRebellion manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526162359/
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Manchester University Press - Expansion rebellion
Expansion rebellion - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Expansion rebellion by Celeste Hicks
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Aviation Environment Federation (AEF) @theaef.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Academic Richard Sulley outlines why airport expansion undermines climate goals: “Unfortunately aviation is a prime example of the Jevons effect where any improvement in efficiency has been wiped out by increased demand.” theconversation.com/expanding-he...
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Expanding Heathrow is incompatible with net zero – here’s the evidence
The UK’s environmental commitments leave no room for extra runways.
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Yes quite sad that we need to consider #ExpansionRebellion yet again. There are so many other things that need our time and attention and to realise that this most emblematic of battles needs to be held again is exhausting
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Keir Starmer, green campaigner ... ... before being elected leader, and revealing his policies were written by fossil fuel billionaires and climate change denying lobbyists meme via Mandy Shering
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Songbird chicks are being killed by high levels of #pesticides in the pet fur used by their parents to line their nests www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pet fur found in songbird nests contains high levels of pesticides, study finds
Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Scratching your head about how #Heathrow will argue expansion won't blow the UK #Carbonbudgets @thecccuk.bsky.social - listen to Matt Gorman for your answer: green.simpliflying.com/p/matthew-go...
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How Heathrow’s SAF incentive aims to tackle critical barriers to adoption
In this episode, we speak with Matthew Gorman, Director of Carbon Strategy at Heathrow Airport.
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ah, do we really have to do the #ExpansionRebellion again. Almost 6 years after it was emphatically shown that Heathrow expansion alone would put our climate targets in jeopardy, Rachel Reeves wants to expand Heathrow, Gatwick AND Luton www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....
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Heathrow third runway plan labelled ‘desperate’ amid Labour divisions
Rachel Reeves hopes expansion will increase economic growth but Ed Miliband and Sadiq Khan oppose it
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What a heartbreaking story
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Celeste Hicks @chadceleste.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@matthewsnedker.bsky.social hi Matthew I'm hoping to chat to you about wood burning and air pollution in Darlington. Can we Dm?
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Children's Rights Over Flights @rightoverflight.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
There no absolutely no way we can grow the aviation sector in the next decades while having a safe climate www.rte.ie/news/environ...
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EU airport plans 'incompatible' with climate targets
An environmental campaign group has said expanding capacity at EU airports is incompatible with climate targets.
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